Sunday, November 18, 2012

Yesterday I saw Spielberg's "Lincoln" which made the passage of the
13th Amendment about as interesting as possible. The acting was brilliant. Reviewers and responders on blogs got all
caught up in the portrayal of Lincoln
and the tenor voice, and with historical minutiae. It's not a documentary; good
grief. Of course there are going to be artistic liberties taken. Surprisingly, Spielberg,
screenwriter Tony Kushner, and Daniel Day Lewis, all Statist, Leftist Radicals,
didn't rewrite history and avoided the standard attacks on Republicans.
Actually it was a pretty good sketch of the events getting the anti-slavery
amendment passed, and correctly portrayed the Democrats as the pro-slavery
Party.

The meme is that it's the Republican Party that's racist and
segregationist. The opposite has always been
the case. Spielberg has been saying in interviews that Dems and Republicans
"have traded political places over the last 150 years". A blatant lie.

The Dems were the ones that fought against civil rights
legislation in the mid twentieth century, were the supporters and members of
the KKK and all the rest of the horrible treatment of Blacks in this country. It's
the Democrats that have impoverished and enslaved Blacks in the Urban
Plantation in the twentieth century, and continue to do so. Black unemployment
is in the high teens, and going up under a Black Democrat president.

Here is the history of the Racist Democrat Party vs the
Republican Party. By the way, most Blacks were members of the Republican Party
from the end of the Civil War into the early 20th century. Then the Dems did
then, what they do now, offered a lot of free stuff. No such thing as free
stuff, but people vote for their own oppression on the promise of free stuff.

The Democrats:
Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery and
the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.

Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.

Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.

Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West
Virginia, is well known for having been a “Kleagle”
in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14
straight hours to keep it from passage.

Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws
enacted by Republicans.

Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for
a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.

Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the
federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme
Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of
Alabama.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944
was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a
federal law against lynching.

The Republicans:
Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the
objection of Democrats.
Republicans founded the HBCU’s (HistoricalBlackCollege’s
and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the
Democrats.
Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation
in Congress.
Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks
freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.

Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation
from the 1860s through the 1960s.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to
desegregate the schools.

Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the
Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois,
not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil
rights laws of the 1960’s.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois
wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois
also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited
discrimination in housing.

Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by
Dr. King on Washington.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act Roll Call Vote: In the House, only 64 percent of the
Democrats (153 yes, 91 no), but 80 percent of the Republicans (136 yes, 35 no),
voted for it. In the Senate, while only 68 percent of the Democrats endorsed
the bill (46 yes, 21 no), 82 percent of the Republicans voted to enact it (27
yes, 6 no).

Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican that introduced legislation to give
African Americans the so-called 40 acres and a mule and Democrats
overwhelmingly voted against the bill.

During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that
members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku
Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan
Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities.

History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered
thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and communities
occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood, Florida, the Greenwood
District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington, North Carolina to name a few.

History reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry
L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of the traditional
Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them closed. Many of our
traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.

After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the
average African American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation
sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to
eradicate the unique problems that African Americans face today.

As of 2004, the Democrat Party (the oldest political party in America) had
never elected a black man to the United States Senate, while the Republicans
had elected three.

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